Kochen auf Sparflamme: Berlinerin zeigt auf Tiktok, wie man beim Kochen richtig spart

It is early and the night was once again short. After only four hours of sleep, Jennifer Kuschel gets up again so that her children can go to school well. What is funny, what we also like, is that when we fall asleep, we work better than when we all get up on time. The 34-year-old is an only child and is completely alone responsible for her three children. They live in the east of Berlin. They have only been able to afford the small apartment for a long time. Johnny has to get up slowly because I have to wrap. My plan was actually this picture book family. I always wanted ... I think it was because I didn't have it myself. I always wanted to have a family. Jenny becomes a mother for the first time at the age of 21. Her daughter is now 13. The youngest is two years old. Full family life between puberty and diapers. Have you already packed your food? Have you finished your map? Keys? Cell phone? Shortly before 8 a.m. it goes to school and to the kitchens. Then Jenny starts cooking. For herself and for her fans on Instagram and TikTok. With a few tricks she turns her small kitchen into a cooking studio and films every step with her cell phone. The dish must be cheap. She has the prices of her ingredients in her head. We are broke again. Therefore, a dish costs less than 2.50 euros. First, the tomato is cut into small pieces for 30 cents and the onion for 10 cents and fried in a little oil. Broke is ... that's us. It's actually called bankruptcy. If you have just reached the point where you don't know whether you still have enough money this week and whether you can afford enough food, then you are broke. Jenny has solutions to get through the rounds in this situation anyway. We are broke again. In the past, she often had less than 20 euros a week for food. Today, hundreds of thousands follow her on her channels Food and Family. Now comes a really cool dish. I still had tomato, onion and garlic. Jenny grows up in a nursing family. Even then she knows what it feels like to be broke. She has to do without a lot of things, including her hair. They are gone because I had lice. They were reluctant to spend money on lice control. It was easier to cut them off. It hurt a lot, I remember. Eating was also always spared. If you ate too much, it was said, please pay attention to it, because we only have 3 euros a day for you or something. Back then, Jenny focused on learning, doing her Abitur, becoming a graphic designer and studying. It's going well. In the middle of her third pregnancy, her relationship breaks down. It was a little story of dependence. Things came out that I didn't know were like that. I wasn't the only one in my life, I'll say now. But I didn't know all of this before. At some point I said, okay, that was the pregnancy that opened my eyes. At some point I said, now you have to draw a line, otherwise you won't get out of there. She finally separates from the father of her children and sorts her life anew. To distract herself, she signs up for TikTok and films what she cooks. That's coming up. I wanted to save a lot for vacation and not buy as little as possible. There was a dish today. I tried to make the onions small. You shouldn't do that. This broke came from someone else. He showed a broken dish. But that was 6 euros. I had to smile a little. I'll show you a real broken dish now. Since the prices have risen, the demand on their channels is growing significantly. Either from students, single mothers or couples. Now more and more families are getting in touch and saying, hey, that's great, we're getting along much better now. Jenny also has to deal with threats and hate comments. On the one hand, disgusting food. I would never eat. To save on food, you should be ashamed. Or I already had to deal with someone who threatened me with the juvenile court. And that my children should be torn apart. And all that stuff, yes. I think the problem is that many people do not put themselves in this position. Thank God they don't have to. And that it is not clear to them how some people are doing. Every Monday is their refrigerator cleaning day. Everything that is eaten or not eaten is then put in the freezer. I definitely like to pick up coconut milk. I noticed that when I was cooking. You never need that much coconut milk. Then it somehow remains. I have to admit, I forgot it before. I threw the trash away. What children can't stand at all are breadcrumbs. They don't like these breadcrumbs. I got used to just cutting them off with scissors. Then they are frozen. When I cook a soup, they are fried in garlic or something. Meanwhile, Jenny earns her money with cooperation on the canals. Let the whole thing simmer with broth. He puts cheese in it. And that's it. Mega delicious. I still can't realize that I can do it with this job. You do such a job and you can live from it. You can offer your children something. That's still not quite right for me. I can't quite grasp it yet. It's been going really well for a few months. And she can save a little at the end of the month. But Jenny prefers to be careful. I don't think I would leave this apartment. From experience I know that everything can always change. I wouldn't want to make a mistake like a large apartment. Then the range is gone. It goes so fast in this job. This year there is even a joint vacation for the whole family in Germany. And at some point Jenny wants to fulfill another big dream. I've had very bad teeth since I was little. It was never financially possible to get them done. I don't think people used to pay much attention to it. I don't know how the possibilities were. But it was always such a problem not to be able to smile as extensively as I would have liked.